Asatru Folk Assembly

Religious institutions: The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is a white nationalist[3][4] international Ásatrú organization, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994.

Many of the assembly's doctrines, heavily criticized by most heathens,[5][better source needed] are based on ethnicity, an approach it calls "folkish".

The Viking Brotherhood evolved into the Asatru Free Assembly in 1974, and was disbanded in 1986, splitting into two successor organizations, the "folkish" Ásatrú Alliance, and the "universalist" Troth.

According to accounts by McNallen, it was not due to racial politics, but because administration was time-consuming and the membership rejected a request seeking pay for religious work.

[13] McNallen believes in an "integral link between ancestry and religion, between biology and spirituality"; according to Jeffrey Kaplan, the organization was founded in part to counteract rumored "universalist" tendencies he discerned in Ring of Troth.

[14] In 1999, the AFA attempted to acquire land in the northern California, intending to create a communal project with room for agriculture and religious worship.

[18] In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center added the AFA to its list of hate groups as part of a new category called "neo-Völkisch".

[20] In December 2019, two members of the Army National Guard left the military under uncertain terms related to their involvement as leaders of "Ravensblood Kindred", a white nationalist religious group that shared ties with the AFA.

[41] As a result of the discriminatory activities of the AFA, numerous Heathen and neo-pagan organizations sought to produce a document refuting these beliefs and the characterization that they represented these faiths.